It's time to head back to RSS? • Hacker News Board

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by daveFNbuck » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 3:45 PM UTC

lousken wrote: post #289

daveFNbuck wrote: post #20

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What makes it better than Feedly? I've been using Feedly since Google Reader closed and I think it pretty much nails this simple tool. How is it even possible to be much better?

Whenever I'm on slow internet I appreciate loading "mobilized content" - it will show you contents of the article right on the site. Also in general it felt a lot faster than feedly (left 2yrs ago though, feedly might've changed).

I've always had Feedly set to display the full article in the reader. It's been a feature since the day I switched from Google Reader. Is "mobilized content" different from that?

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by roywiggins » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 3:47 PM UTC

theclaw wrote: post #278

I've tried Feedly but my goodness, the corporate language is such a turn off. I just want a feed reader, I don't want to "Fuel your team's success," "Enrich articles with unique insights," "Automate your content workflows," "Reinforce your digital brand". These features may be cool and useful, but the way they're sold makes me gag. I used my ad blocker to remove the "Well done!" that appears when everything is marked…

I had the same problem with Feedly. Just the other day I set up a server on NearlyFreeSpeech and threw Miniflux (a PHP RSS reader) on there. It's not polished but it is nice to be in control.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by bogomipz » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 3:54 PM UTC

toasterlovin wrote: post #306

bogomipz wrote: post #303

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> Way more thoughtful, long form content." Isn't RSS the same content as on the publishers page or site though? Maybe I am misinterpreting you comment?

Yeah, it’s the same content. It’s just that if you switch to consuming it via RSS, you don’t get sucked into all the bite sized media that permeates the web.

I see, yes that makes sense. There's nothing that detracts from the reading experience more than an advertisement placed between two adjacent paragraph in s story. Even the moribund print news media doesn't do this.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by daveFNbuck » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 3:55 PM UTC

akvadrako wrote: post #145

daveFNbuck wrote: post #20

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What makes it better than Feedly? I've been using Feedly since Google Reader closed and I think it pretty much nails this simple tool. How is it even possible to be much better?

I also tried out Feedly and about 5 different readers when I needed to switch. Inoreader had the best UI and was free.

My question was what makes the UI better. I guess I'll just have to try it and see.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by boterock » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 3:56 PM UTC

It's sad that no one has mentioned Pushbullet. Is a small app that notifies you when things happen, and you can set it to notify RSS news, it also integrates with IFTTT and has a bunch of other features. You should check it out. Edit: It also has top HN, and it notifies when a story reaches 100 points IIRC.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by pbourke » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:00 PM UTC

bogomipz wrote: post #302

singingfish wrote: post #107

RSS never went away. Podcasting has made careers (e.g. deboarah francis-white, roman mars, andy & helen zaltzman, ollie mann and many others). The technological underpinning of podcasting is entirely RSS. And it ain't going away, or getting embraced and extended any time soon.

>"The technological underpinning of podcasting is entirely RSS." Can you elaborate on this? How are they related?

Podcasts are audio files syndicated over RSS

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by Tijdreiziger » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:02 PM UTC

boterock wrote: post #315

It's sad that no one has mentioned Pushbullet. Is a small app that notifies you when things happen, and you can set it to notify RSS news, it also integrates with IFTTT and has a bunch of other features. You should check it out. Edit: It also has top HN, and it notifies when a story reaches 100 points IIRC.

A feed reader allows you to catch up on your feeds at a time that's convenient to you (much like old-fashioned magazines), rather than pestering you every time an article is published.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by braindongle » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:05 PM UTC

What is the best RSS reader that has a customizable tiled layout, like http://www.protopage.com/? By this I mean, I have (nearly) the whole screen at my disposal, can choose the number of columns and rows, and the height (number of article titles) for each tile/feed. For my money, no other layout comes close in terms of information ingestion efficiency.

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by splitbrain » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

theclaw wrote: post #278

I've tried Feedly but my goodness, the corporate language is such a turn off. I just want a feed reader, I don't want to "Fuel your team's success," "Enrich articles with unique insights," "Automate your content workflows," "Reinforce your digital brand". These features may be cool and useful, but the way they're sold makes me gag. I used my ad blocker to remove the "Well done!" that appears when everything is marked…

To me inoreader.com is the perfect Google reader like feed reader. I don't get all the fuzz about feedly, there are better alternatives. just my $0.02

Re: It's time to head back to RSS?

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Post by ttepasse » Sat, Mar 31, 2018, 4:09 PM UTC

modernerd wrote: post #87

Yes. But please not RSS. At least newer initiatives like JSON Feed have maintainers who respond to requests for improvements. RSS feels like an abandoned standard. I tried to submit an improvement to the author directly to explicitly allow HTTPS URLs in light of upcoming iTunes changes to enforce HTTPS; they said by email that of course HTTPS resources are valid in their view, but they weren't prepared to actively up…

> At least newer initiatives like JSON Feed have maintainers who respond to requests for improvements.

Uhm. To my knowledge none of the issues in the JSONFeed Github repository ever caused a change in the JSONFeed spec. It's like talking into a black hole. A nice and friendly black hole, granted, but still a black hole.

(Completely agree on the HTTPS issue.)